McLean Buttress
| McLean Buttress | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Cruzen Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 19 ′ S , 160 ° 58 ′ E | |
The McLean Buttress is a mountain ridge in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . In the Cruzen Range it rises steeply on the north side of Webb Lake and the Barwick Valley and marks the southern limit of the plateau The Fortress .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1976 after Frank E. McLean of the United States Coast Guard , captain of the icebreaker USCGC Burton Island in the Ross Sea during Operation Deep Freeze in 1970 and 1971.
Web links
- McLean Buttress in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McLean Buttress on geographic.org (English)